Believe me, it is best that you should have no further news from Paris, and after some months you can send for your things through a third person.

Have you anybody in Paris who could arrange that for you ?" "No." "Then I will do it.

And even if you were to let the things go, it would be no great loss.

Above all things, no renewing of old fetters.

This lackey takes a healthy enough view of the matter, for all his cynicisms.